PhD thesis defendend on 14 January 2008:

Automatic image annotation: consistent annotation, and creating automatically a learning database.

The thesis is available in pdf (French). If you can't understand French, you might have a look at the publications.

Here is a short visual summary of the complete annotation system:

A presentation of the current state of what I have accomplished so far is available in the page containing publications, named "presentation in Vienna, 2006".

You can also see screenshots of results here (still under construction).

And my Resume